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RPT-SR: Regional Prior attention Transformer for infrared image Super-Resolution
Youngwan Jin, Incheol Park, Yagiz Nalcakan, Hyeongjin Ju, Sanghyeop Yeo, Shiho Kim
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The paper introduces RPT-SR, a Regional Prior attention Transformer for infrared image Super-Resolution. It addresses the inefficiency of general-purpose Vision Transformers in fixed-viewpoint infrared imaging by proposing a dual-token framework. This framework fuses learnable, static Regional Prior (R.P.) tokens, which encode persistent scene layout, with dynamic Local tokens that capture frame-specific content. The R.P. tokens act as a persistent memory to guide the reconstruction process, improving efficiency and performance. The method achieves state-of-the-art results on both Long-Wave (LWIR) and Short-Wave (SWIR) infrared datasets.
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RPT-SR â appliesto â Long-Wave Infrared
confidence 95% ¡ demonstrate the broad applicability and versatility of RPT-SR by establishing new state-of-the-art performance across diverse datasets covering both Long-Wave (LWIR)
RPT-SR â appliesto â Short-Wave Infrared
confidence 95% ¡ demonstrate the broad applicability and versatility of RPT-SR by establishing new state-of-the-art performance across diverse datasets covering both ... Short-Wave (SWIR) spectra
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confidence 95% ¡ we introduce Regional Prior Attention (RPA), a novel attention mechanism implemented via an effective dual-token architecture.
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Abstract:General-purpose super-resolution models, particularly Vision Transformers, have achieved remarkable success but exhibit fundamental inefficiencies in common infrared imaging scenarios like surveillance and autonomous driving, which operate from fixed or nearly-static viewpoints. These models fail to exploit the strong, persistent spatial priors inherent in such scenes, leading to redundant learning and suboptimal performance. To address this, we propose the Regional Prior attention Transformer for infrared image Super-Resolution (RPT-SR), a novel architecture that explicitly encodes scene layout information into the attention mechanism. Our core contribution is a dual-token framework that fuses (1) learnable, regional prior tokens, which act as a persistent memory for the scene's global structure, with (2) local tokens that capture the frame-specific content of the current input. By utilizing these tokens into an attention, our model allows the priors to dynamically modulate the local reconstruction process. Extensive experiments validate our approach. While most prior works focus on a single infrared band, we demonstrate the broad applicability and versatility of RPT-SR by establishing new state-of-the-art performance across diverse datasets covering both Long-Wave (LWIR) and Short-Wave (SWIR) spectra
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RPT-SR: Regional Prior attention Transformer for infrared image Super-Resolution Youngwan Jin1,2 Incheol Park1,2 Yagiz Nalcakan1 Hyeongjin Ju1,2 Sanghyeop Yeo1,2 Shiho Kim1 1Yonsei University 2BK21 Graduate Program in Intelligent Semiconductor Technology Abstract General-purpose super-resolution models, particularly Vision Transformers, have achieved remarkable success but exhibit fundamental inefficiencies in common infrared imaging scenarios like surveillance and autonomous driving, which operate from fixed or nearly-static viewpoints. These models fail to exploit the strong, persistent spatial priors inherent in such scenes, leading to redundant learning and suboptimal performance. To address this, we propose the Regional Prior attention Transformer for infrared image Super-Resolution (RPT-SR), a novel architecture that explicitly encodes scene layout information into the attention mechanism. Our core contribution is a dual-token framework that fuses (1) learnable, regional prior tokens, which act as a persistent memory for the sceneâs global structure, with (2) local tokens that capture the frame-specific content of the current input. By utilizing these tokens into an attention, our model allows the priors to dynamically modulate the local reconstruction process. Extensive experiments validate our approach. While most prior works focus on a single infrared band, we demonstrate the broad applicability and versatility of RPT-SR by establishing new state-of-the-art performance across diverse datasets covering both Long-Wave (LWIR) and Short-Wave (SWIR) spectra. Code is available at https://github.com/Yonsei-STL/RPT-SR.git. 1 Introduction Figure 1: Comparison of attention mechanisms. (a) Standard self-attention computes global relationships at a high computational cost. (b) Window self-attention limits computation to local windows but misses global context. (c) Our proposed Regional Prior Attention (RPA) fuses a persistent, learnable Regional Prior (R.P.) token with a Local token. The R.P. token learns the sceneâs static layout over epochs, providing a strong structural guide for the reconstruction. Infrared (IR) imaging, which operates beyond the visible spectrum, is a key modality that expands the perceptual capabilities of computer vision systems. In particular, the long-wave infrared (LWIR) [15, 29] and short-wave infrared (SWIR) [16, 25] bands play indispensable roles across diverse applications because of their distinct physical properties [9]. LWIR (approximately 7 to 14 Îź ) senses thermal radiation emitted by objects, enabling illumination-invariant, around-the-clock observation. By contrast, SWIR (approximately 1 to 2.5 Îź ) measures reflected light, similar to the visible spectrum, yet exhibits higher transmittance through atmospheric scatterers such as fog, smoke, and haze, thereby delivering sharp images even under adverse weather conditions. These characteristics overcome the limitations of conventional visible (RGB) cameras, whose performance degrades severely in challenging conditions such as fog, rain, glare, and nighttime, and establish IR imaging as a cornerstone of all-weather, robust perception systems [28]. Infrared (IR) imaging provides unique physical information that visible-light sensors cannot capture, such as material-level distinctions in SWIR [30] or thermal patterns in LWIR. However, IR sensors face a fundamental limitation of low resolution. This is due to physical and economic constraintsâunlike with visible-light sensorsâwhere manufacturing costs rise exponentially with resolution [12, 38, 11]. Super-resolution (SR) is therefore not merely for improving image quality, but is the most practical and cost-effective solution to replace expensive high-resolution hardware. Consequently, for advanced vision systems requiring high reliability, such as autonomous driving and remote surveillance, the high-resolution restoration of IR images is of decisive importance [14, 13]. Deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. Early convolutional models such as SRCNN [8] outperformed classical methods, yet the locality of convolutional kernels limits their ability to model long-range dependencies and global context. To address these limitations, vision transformers have introduced a new paradigm for image restoration. State-of-the-art models such as SwinIR [21] and HAT [1] capture global relationships among image patches via self-attention and achieve results that substantially surpass prior benchmarks. Nevertheless, despite their strong performance, these general-purpose SR models exhibit fundamental inefficiencies in scenarios where IR imaging is frequently deployed, including traffic CCTV, roadside surveillance, and vehicle-mounted ADAS cameras, which operate from fixed or nearly static viewpoints. In such environments, scene structure is highly predictable. For example, in forward-facing driving videos, the road consistently appears at the bottom of the frame, buildings in the upper middle, and the sky at the top. A strong anisotropic spatial prior exists in which the statistical distribution of image content (frequencies, textures, and object classes) changes systematically with pixel location. Existing CNN- and transformer-based SR models do not explicitly encode this layout prior. Instead, during training they must implicitly relearn the same spatial regularities from data, which wastes part of the modelâs attention budget on low-information regions and slows convergence. The strength of modern transformers, namely the capacity to model global context dynamically for arbitrary inputs, can become a liability in static-viewpoint settings. Because the model remains in a state of structural amnesia with respect to persistent scene layout, it expends significant capacity rediscovering redundant information in every frame. Consequently, a powerful but statistically naive model allocates resources inefficiently in environments with stable regularities. To address this inefficiency, we propose the Regional Prior attention Transformer for infrared image Super-Resolution (RPT-SR). As illustrated in Figure 1 (c), our approach introduces a novel attention mechanism called Regional Prior Attention (RPA). The core idea is a dual-token framework that operates on two distinct types of information carriers. First, a learnable, static Regional Prior (R.P.) token acts as a persistent memory, learning the sceneâs invariant spatial layout across the entire dataset over training epochs. Second, a dynamic Local token is generated from each input image to capture its unique, frame-specific content. These two tokens are then fused and injected into the attention block, allowing the powerful, scene-constant prior to modulate and guide the reconstruction of specific local details. This design enables the model to escape the âstructural amnesiaâ of prior methods, leading to more efficient learning and higher fidelity. To substantiate the robustness and generalizability of our proposed method, we validate it across two physically distinct infrared spectra. Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) imaging captures emitted thermal radiation, while Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) imaging relies on reflected light, leading to fundamentally different image characteristics, noise profiles, and texture distributions. By achieving state-of-the-art results in both domainsâa broader validation than is typical in prior workâwe demonstrate that our regional prior mechanism is not merely tailored to a specific modality. Instead, it effectively learns the underlying structural regularities of fixed-viewpoint scenes regardless of the imaging physics, confirming the versatility of our approach. The contributions of this paper are as follows: ⢠We introduce Regional Prior Attention (RPA), a novel attention mechanism implemented via an effective dual-token architecture. This framework fuses persistent, static prior tokens with frame-specific, dynamic local tokens to explicitly encode the spatial priors of fixed-viewpoint scenes. ⢠We demonstrate the broad applicability and versatility of our method by achieving new state-of-the-art results on diverse benchmarks covering both Long-Wave (LWIR) and Short-Wave (SWIR) infrared spectra. 2 Related Work 2.1 GAN-Based Image Restoration Early advancements in perceptual super-resolution (SR) were largely driven by generative adversarial networks (GANs). ESRGAN[33] coupled a perceptual loss with a relativistic discriminator to enhance visual fidelity, setting a strong baseline for GAN-based methods. However, its degradation model was too simple for real-world scenarios. To address this, BSRGAN[40] introduced a more practical degradation model featuring a shuffled degradation strategy that randomly mixes complex blur, resampling, and noise types. This allowed it to achieve superior perceptual quality on real photographs, as measured by lower NIQE scores. Building on this, Real-ESRGAN[32] further enlarged the corruption space and redesigned the generator and discriminator, demonstrating that a well-designed model could be trained for real-world blind SR using purely synthetic data. Although these works showcase the power of GANs, they often depend on hand-crafted degradation pipelines and can suffer from adversarially unstable training, motivating the exploration of alternative generative frameworks. 2.2 Transformer-based Image Restoration The success of self-attention has made Vision Transformers a dominant architecture for image restoration. SwinIR [21] adapts the Swin Transformer to restoration by computing self-attention within shifted local windows, achieving strong performance while avoiding the quadratic cost of global attention. A key challenge in this line of work is how to expand the effective receptive field. To this end, CAT [5] enlarges the attention area using parallel horizontal and vertical rectangular windows (Rwin-SA), and ART [39] alternates between dense local attention and sparse attention blocks that sample tokens from distant locations. Another direction integrates global information or refines the attention mechanism itself. ATD [41] introduces a learnable token dictionary and injects external priors via cross-attention, whereas RGT [4] aggregates features into a compact representative map for efficient global exchange. PFT-SR [23] proposes Progressive Focused Attention, which multiplicatively inherits attention maps across layers to emphasize relevant tokens and skip computation on irrelevant ones. Hybrid designs such as HAT [1] and DAT [3] further improve representation power by combining channel attention with transformer blocks and by learning data-dependent deformable attention patterns. Efficiency-oriented models aim to retain quality under limited computation. HiT-SR [43] replaces shifted-window attention with a spatialâchannel correlation mechanism within a hierarchical backbone, SRFormer [45] uses permuted self-attention to aggregate information over larger regions at low cost, and SMFANet [44] adopts a parallel architecture that explicitly models both local and non-local features to achieve a favorable performanceâcomplexity trade-off. 2.3 Diffusion-Based Super-Resolution Score-based diffusion models have emerged as a stable alternative to adversarial training. SR3 [27] demonstrated high-quality SR with a noise-conditioned U-Net but required hundreds of reverse steps, motivating faster sampling. ResShift [37] operates in residual space to reduce sampling to âź 15 steps, while SinSR [34] distills the multi-step reverse process into a single deterministic mapping via a consistency-based loss. For model compression, Bi-DiffSR [2] investigates an ultra-compressed binarized U-Net with dedicated modules (CP-Down/Up and timestep-aware redistribution). Diffusion backbones have also evolved beyond U-Nets: DiT-SR [6] proposes an isotropic Transformer that reallocates capacity toward high-resolution stages, and Inf-DiT [36] introduces memory-efficient block attention to enable over-4K generation. For infrared SR, DifIISR [20] further injects thermal spectrum priors and detector gradients into the diffusion process to improve both visual quality and downstream detection performance. 2.4 Frequency and Prompt-Guided Approaches Several methods improve restoration by incorporating explicit frequency-domain priors or external guidance from text prompts. CoRPLE[19] enhances structural fidelity in infrared SR by combining a Laplacian-pyramid contourlet transform with guidance from positive and negative text prompts. The contourlet transform helps preserve multi-scale and multi-directional details, while the prompts guide the model toward desired attributes and away from artifacts. Such cues are largely orthogonal to the choice of the generative backbone and can be integrated with Transformer or diffusion-based frameworks to further boost performance. 3 Method Figure 2: The overall architecture of our proposed RPT-SR. (Top) The model consists of a shallow feature stem, a deep body of RPA Blocks, and a reconstruction head. (Bottom Left) A detailed view of the Regional Prior Attention (RPA) module. A dynamic Local Token, summarized from the input, is fused with a learnable, static Regional Prior Token. These are processed by a Hierarchical Attention (HAT) block to guide the reconstruction. (Bottom Right) The hierarchical windowing strategy, where the attention window size increases in deeper layers. Given a singleâframe lowâresolution (LR) infrared image ILRââ3ĂHĂWI_LR\!â\!R^3Ă HĂ W, our goal is to predict its highâresolution (HR) counterpart I^HRââ3ĂrâHĂrâW I_HR ^3Ă rHĂ rW. We support an arbitrary upâsampling factor r. We first motivate our design (Sec. 3.1), then outline the architecture (Sec. 3.2), and finally formalize the proposed Regional Prior Attention Layer (Sec. 3.3). 3.1 Motivation Layoutâconditioned lowâlevel statistics. Fixedâview infrared imaging (e.g., fixed surveillance, forwardâfacing automotive cameras) exhibits strong spatial anisotropy in lowâlevel statistics: across frames captured from nearly identical geographic structure, poses, the distribution of frequency content, thermal contrast, and texture density vary systematically with pixel location. Formally, for a lowâlevel statistic S on image I, Var(u,v)âĄIâ[Sâ(I)â[u,v]]⍠0,Var_(u,v)\,E_I [S(I)[u,v] ]\; \;0, indicating nonâuniform, positionâconditioned statistics. Conventional CNN and Transformer SR backbones do not encode this layout prior explicitly. They must relearn the same spatial regularities from scratch, which slows convergence and dilutes attention over consistently less informative regions. Regional priors as a compact memory. We operationalize these classâagnostic, layoutâconditioned priors by introducing a learnable, spatially indexed memory called regional prior token, which is utilized per macroâwindow location. These tokens are shared across images and optimized endâtoâend using only the pixel reconstruction loss to accelerate their early learning. We apply a learning-rate multiplier to these parameters only. At run time, the regional prior tokens are paired with perâinput local tokens distilled from the current feature map; concatenating the two along channels yields dynamic tokens that inject global, positionâspecific regularities into attention. This design accelerates convergence and improves reconstruction fidelity on fixedâview IR scenes. 3.2 Network Overview Figure 2 shows the overall pipeline, following the standard âfeature extractor â deep transformer body â reconstruction headâ pattern used in transformerâbased SR. (1) Shallow feature stem. A 3Ă33Ă3 convolution maps ILRI_LR to F0ââCĂHĂWF_0\!â\!R^CĂ HĂ W without changing resolution. No absolute positional encoding is used here, preserving inputâsize agnosticism. (2) Deep body of RegionalâPrior Attention (RPA) blocks. The core is a cascade of residual RPA Blocks. Each block contains several RPA layers. In each RPA layer, windowâbased tokens (the usual perâpixel tokens inside a window) interact with a small set of dynamic tokens formed by concatenating a perâinput local token and a learnable regional prior token (RPT) at the same macroâwindow location. Inside every layer, we design a regional prior attention based on FasterViT [10] to refine the dynamic tokens through a lightweight selfâattention and inject the refined dynamic tokens into the window attention, so that global, positionâspecific regularities modulate local interactions. Residual paths and an MLP complete the layer; several layers at the same resolution are wrapped by an outer residual path to form one RPA Block. (3) Reconstruction head. After the deep body, a 3Ă33Ă3 aggregation convolution is applied. A single pixelâshuffle unit upsamples by r, and a final 3Ă33Ă3 convolution produces I^HR I_HR. 3.3 Regional Prior Attention Notation. Let Nw=HâWw2N_w= HWw^2 be the number of windows and k the number of dynamic tokens per window, so the total number of dynamic tokens is Nc=kâNwN_c=k\,N_w. Let FââCĂHĂWF\!â\!R^CĂ HĂ W be the input feature map to one RPA, and let w denote the window edge length. 1) Window tokenization. Partition FF into Nw=HâWw2N_w= HWw^2 windows. For each window jâ1,âŚ,Nwj\!â\!\1,âŚ,N_w\ we form the window token sequence X(j)ââw2ĂC,X^(j) ^w^2Ă C, i.e., w2w^2 tokens per window. 2) Local token generation (per input). A lightweight function ĎĎ first reduces channels with a 1Ă11Ă1 projection (CâC/2C\!â\!C/2), followed by a depthâwise 3Ă33Ă3 convolution and average pooling, producing a coarse grid of local tokens L=Ďâ(F)ââNcĂC/2.L=Ď(F) ^N_cĂ C/2. We denote by k the number of tokens assigned to each window, so that the total number is Nc=kâNwN_c=k\,N_w.111Our experiments use k=1k=1; general k is supported by the implementation. 3) Regional prior token (learned parameter). Each macroâwindow location is equipped with a learnable regional prior token RââNcĂC/2,R ^N_cĂ C/2, initialized from the first miniâbatch (by copying the corresponding local tokens) and then optimized by SGD. RR is shared across images but distinct per layer (i.e., not shared across layers). 4) Dynamic token (fusion). At each location, the local token and regional prior token are concatenated along channels to form a dynamic token D=[LâĽR]ââNcĂC.D= [L\;\|\;R ] ^N_cĂ C. No extra gating scalar is used. 5) attention with dynamic tokens. attention proceeds in two stages: (a) Dynamicâtoken selfâattention. Dynamic tokens exchange information globally: D~ D =MSAâĄ(LNâĄ(D))+D, =MSA\! (LN(D) )+D, (5) Dâ =MLPâĄ(LNâĄ(D~))+D~. =MLP\! (LN( D) )+ D. (6) (b) Window attention with dynamic tokens. The refined dynamic tokens are redistributed so that each window receives k of them. For window j we prepend the k dynamic tokens and run attention over the concatenated sequence: Z(j)=[Dâ,(j)âĽX(j)]ââ(k+w2)ĂC,Z^(j)= [D ,(j)\;\|\;X^(j) ] ^(k+w^2)Ă C, Y(j)=MSAâĄ(LNâĄ(Z(j)))+Z(j),Y^(j)=MSA\! (LN(Z^(j)) )+Z^(j), O(j)=MLPâĄ(LNâĄ(Y(j)))+Y(j). ^(j)=MLP\! (LN(Y^(j)) )+Y^(j). The outputs O(j)j=1Nw\O^(j)\_j=1^N_w are reshaped back to Complexity. Per window, the attention cost scales as â((k+w2)2âC)O((k+w^2)^2C); relative to a k=0k=0 baseline, the incremental overhead is â(2âkâw2+k2)O(2kw^2+k^2), which stays small for the kâ¤4k\!â¤\!4 used in practice. âCĂHĂWR^CĂ HĂ W. 3.4 Implementation Details For the classical model (RPT-SR), we use 4 RPA blocks, each containing 4 transformer layers with multi-head attention(6 heads). The embedding dimension is 240 channels, and the hierarchical window sizes follow the schedule [8Ă8, 16Ă16, 16Ă16, 32Ă32][8Ă8,\,16Ă16,\,16Ă16,\,32Ă32]. We use one learnable dynamic token per attention window (k=1k=1) and optimize the model with Adam ((β1=0.9,β2=0.99)( _1=0.9,\ _2=0.99)) at an initial learning rate of 5Ă10â45Ă10^-4 for 100100k iterations under a MultiStep schedule (milestones at 5050k/8080k/9090k/92.592.5k, Îł=0.5Îł=0.5). Regional prior tokens are trained with a 50Ă50Ă learning rate multiplier, while all other parameters use the base rate. For the lightweight variant (RPT-SR-Light), we reduce the configuration to 4 heads and 80 channels, with window sizes [8Ă8, 8Ă8, 16Ă16, 16Ă16][8Ă8,\,8Ă8,\,16Ă16,\,16Ă16]), while keeping all other training settings (loss, optimizer, schedule, and k=1k=1) identical to the baseline model. Method Publication LPIPS â MUSIQ â MANIQA â FLOPs (G) â Params (M) â BSRGAN [40] CVPRâ21 0.237 1550.237\,155 33.612 9733.612\,97 0.164 3490.164\,349 297.730297.730 16.70016.700 SwinIR [21] ICCVWâ21 0.206 9680.206\,968 31.855 0131.855\,01 0.144 0530.144\,053 192.080192.080 11.90011.900 HAT [1] CVPRâ23 0.111 8270.111\,827 39.626 9139.626\,91 0.244 7890.244\,789 345.632345.632 20.51020.510 HAT-s [1] CVPRâ23 0.111 7120.111\,712 40.070 2440.070\,24 0.243 7610.243\,761 163.313163.313 9.3599.359 DAT [3] ICCVâ23 0.108 3840.108\,384 40.245 8140.245\,81 0.247 3060.247\,306 245.182245.182 14.80214.802 DAT-light [3] ICCVâ23 0.158 6230.158\,623 38.163 5738.163\,57 0.238 1520.238\,152 9.1069.106 0.6000.600 DAT-S [3] ICCVâ23 0.114 7820.114\,782 40.082 8240.082\,82 0.246 7730.246\,773 186.468186.468 11.21211.212 DAT2 [3] ICCVâ23 0.142 4010.142\,401 40.214940.2149 0.248 8350.248\,835 186.471186.471 11.21211.212 RGT [4] ICLRâ24 0.109 4210.109\,421 41.304 9341.304\,93 0.248 1730.248\,173 207.604207.604 13.35713.357 RGT-S [4] ICLRâ24 0.124 0550.124\,055 39.610 5639.610\,56 0.243 4920.243\,492 160.481160.481 10.19210.192 CAT-a2 [5] NeurIPSâ22 0.107 2300.107\,230 40.842 0940.842\,09 0.244 4620.244\,462 278.923278.923 16.60416.604 CAT-a [5] NeurIPSâ22 0.110 6880.110\,688 40.129 1540.129\,15 0.243 8880.243\,888 278.918278.918 16.60416.604 CAT2 [5] NeurIPSâ22 0.118 6090.118\,609 39.264 4639.264\,46 0.239 3820.239\,382 202.467202.467 11.92511.925 CAT [5] NeurIPSâ22 0.133 4330.133\,433 41.735 3241.735\,32 0.247 320 60.247\,320\,6 278.908278.908 16.60416.604 SMFANet [44] ECCVâ24 0.168 1620.168\,162 36.668 9336.668\,93 0.234 4650.234\,465 2.9492.949 0.1970.197 SMFANet-plus [44] ECCVâ24 0.165 5600.165\,560 37.150 0537.150\,05 0.246 2530.246\,253 7.4477.447 0.4950.495 SRFormer [45] ICCVâ23 0.121 5450.121\,545 40.006 9540.006\,95 0.245 5160.245\,516 227.404227.404 10.42910.429 SRFormer-light [45] ICCVâ23 0.173 9390.173\,939 35.096 6035.096\,60 0.233 2170.233\,217 14.13414.134 0.8400.840 ART [39] ICLRâ23 0.114 7520.114\,752 39.060 2339.060\,23 0.239 0160.239\,016 283.757283.757 16.54616.546 ART-S [39] ICLRâ23 0.180 0670.180\,067 37.669 0637.669\,06 0.240 7640.240\,764 203.214203.214 11.86711.867 PFT [23] CVPRâ25 0.104 5290.104\,529 38.988 7338.988\,73 0.245 0960.245\,096 319.166319.166 19.05719.057 PFT-light [23] CVPRâ25 0.157 7310.157\,731 37.589 6937.589\,69 0.242 3310.242\,331 11.33711.337 0.6970.697 ATD [41] CVPRâ24 0.135 6610.135\,661 41.679 5341.679\,53 0.249 6010.249\,601 310.235310.235 19.88419.884 ATD-light [41] CVPRâ24 0.162 5490.162\,549 37.473 1737.473\,17 0.248 5850.248\,585 11.66911.669 0.6610.661 HIT-SR [43] ICCVâ24 oral 0.151 6440.151\,644 38.351 5738.351\,57 0.237 5460.237\,546 13.06613.066 0.7920.792 CoRPLE [19] ECCVâ24 0.232 0450.232\,045 31.073 3531.073\,35 0.202 2240.202\,224 37.59237.592 0.5910.591 RPT-SR-light (Ours) 0.137 6730.137\,673 41.737 1941.737\,19 0.247 2140.247\,214 27.55427.554 3.9503.950 RPT-SR (Ours) 0.103 7930.103\,793 41.804941.8049 0.262 130.262\,13 237.783237.783 25.83025.830 Table 1: Quantitative comparison for Ă4Ă 4 super-resolution on the M3FD dataset. The best results are marked in bold and the second-best are underlined. 4 Experiments 4.1 Evaluation Metrics Figure 3: Qualitative comparison for Ă4 super-resolution on the M3FD dataset. Our method (RPT-SR) reconstructs sharper details and more plausible textures compared to existing state-of-the-art methods, particularly in restoring fine structures like human figures, building facades, and distant objects. Traditional metrics such as Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) are widely used but are not reliable indicators of perceptual quality. Prior work in super-resolution has shown that these pixel-level metrics often favor blurry regression outputs that achieve higher scores but diverge from human preference [18, 7, 24]. Similarly, Palette [26] emphasizes that such metrics fail to reflect the quality of generated samples in hallucination-heavy tasks. To obtain a more perceptually aligned evaluation, we adopt a suite of complementary metrics. For reference-based fidelity, we use the Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS) [42], which measures distances in deep feature space and shows strong correlation with human judgment. For no-reference assessment, we employ MUSIQ [17], a Transformer-based model that aggregates multi-scale features to predict perceptual quality. In addition, to capture distortions and artifacts common in tasks such as super-resolution, we incorporate MANIQA [35], a state-of-the-art no-reference IQA method. Method LPIPS â RASMD TNO BSRGAN [40] 0.188 4410.188\,441 0.409 5040.409\,504 SwinIR [21] 0.241 5460.241\,546 0.479 6530.479\,653 HAT [1] 0.156 0220.156\,022 0.247 5310.247\,531 HAT-S [1] 0.160 2920.160\,292 0.254 2560.254\,256 DAT [3] 0.162 3120.162\,312 0.253 3710.253\,371 DAT_light [3] 0.165 0450.165\,045 0.353 3540.353\,354 DAT-S [3] 0.160 3240.160\,324 0.254 7870.254\,787 RGT [4] 0.163 8480.163\,848 0.280 8550.280\,855 RGT-S [4] 0.158 2380.158\,238 0.285 3470.285\,347 CAT [5] 0.155 9130.155\,913 0.327 9570.327\,957 CAT-2 [5] 0.160 4280.160\,428 0.297 3270.297\,327 CAT-A [5] 0.154 8040.154\,804 0.327 9570.327\,957 CAT-A2 [5] 0.157 740.157\,74 0.326 9010.326\,901 SMFANet [44] 0.175 4760.175\,476 0.360 9450.360\,945 SMFANet-plus [44] 0.171 0530.171\,053 0.357 3730.357\,373 ART [39] 0.159 1690.159\,169 0.253 6100.253\,610 ART-S [39] 0.164 9770.164\,977 0.337 4220.337\,422 PFT [23] 0.160 7750.160\,775 0.322 8970.322\,897 PFT-light [23] 0.164 7300.164\,730 0.343 9780.343\,978 ATD [41] 0.158 8760.158\,876 0.316 2610.316\,261 ATD-light [41] 0.166 6500.166\,650 0.343 0770.343\,077 HIT-SR [43] 0.167 4740.167\,474 0.344 2180.344\,218 CoRPLE [19] 0.308 6620.308\,662 0.367 1110.367\,111 RPT-SR (Ours) 0.153 540.153\,54 0.250 1400.250\,140 Table 2: Comparison of LPIPS scores on RASMD and TNO datasets (Ă4Ă 4). Method LPIPS â RASMD M3FD BSRGAN [40] 0.145 7070.145\,707 0.131 4050.131\,405 SwinIR [21] 0.035 3620.035\,362 0.073 1550.073\,155 HAT-S [1] 0.028 6070.028\,607 0.073 0640.073\,064 RGT [4] 0.038 2650.038\,265 0.074 5800.074\,580 RGT-S [4] 0.040 8900.040\,890 0.075 9270.075\,927 SMFANet [44] 0.037 7250.037\,725 0.081 9120.081\,912 SMFANet-plus [44] 0.035 5490.035\,549 0.076 5780.076\,578 ART-S [39] 0.031 2680.031\,268 0.075 0170.075\,017 PFT-light [23] 0.036 3610.036\,361 0.075 9280.075\,928 ATD-light [41] 0.035 9440.035\,944 0.072 9960.072\,996 HiT-SR [43] 0.034 6980.034\,698 0.077 1690.077\,169 CoRPLE [19] 0.037 3100.037\,310 0.076 5980.076\,598 RPT-SR (Ours) 0.028 4810.028\,481 0.072 7600.072\,760 Table 3: Comparison of LPIPS scores on M3FD and RASMD datasets (Ă2Ă 2). 4.2 Experimental Settings For a fair comparison, we follow the training and evaluation protocols of recent state-of-the-art methods [19, 20]. We evaluate our model on both Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) and Short-Wave Infrared (SWIR) super-resolution tasks. For LWIR SR, we use the M3FD [22] and TNO [31] datasets. M3FD is randomly split into 182 images for training and 38 for testing, while 37 images from TNO are used to assess cross-dataset generalization. For SWIR SR, we utilize the RASMD dataset [16], partitioned into 3696 training and 498 test images. Following standard protocols, we generate low-resolution (LR) inputs by applying bicubic downsampling to high-resolution (HR) 512Ă512512Ă 512 image patches, creating 128Ă128128Ă 128 inputs for the Ă4Ă 4 task and 256Ă256256Ă 256 for the Ă2Ă 2 task. All Ă4Ă 4 experiments were conducted on an NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU, while Ă2Ă 2 experiments were performed on an NVIDIA A6000 GPU. 4.3 Comparison with State-of-the-Art Methods We conduct a comprehensive evaluation to benchmark our RPT-SR against recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. Our evaluation encompasses both quantitative metrics and qualitative visualizations to thoroughly validate the superiority of our approach. For quantitative analysis, we first compare performance on the M3FD dataset for the Ă4Ă 4 task. As presented in Table 1, RPT-SR sets a new state-of-the-art, achieving the best scores on LPIPS (0.104â ) and MANIQA (0.262â ). This indicates that our super-resolved images are not only perceptually closer to the ground truth but are also assessed as higher quality. In terms of model complexity, RPT-SR maintains a practical footprint (237.78G FLOPs), highlighting an effective balance between computational efficiency and performance. To further validate the robustness and generalization capabilities of RPT-SR, we extend our quantitative analysis to additional datasets and magnification scales. For the Ă4Ă 4 task, as detailed in Table 2, our model exhibits highly competitive performance on both the RASMD and TNO datasets, achieving LPIPS scores on par with top-performing methods. When evaluated on the Ă2Ă 2 super-resolution task, RPT-SR again demonstrates exceptional performance. As shown in Table 3, our model sets a new state-of-the-art on the RASMD dataset and achieves a highly competitive second-best score on the M3FD dataset, closely following the leading method. This strong performance across different scales and diverse datasets underscores the versatility and effectiveness of our proposed architecture. Complementing our quantitative findings, Figure 3 provides a visual comparison on the M3FD dataset. The qualitative results clearly demonstrate our modelâs superior capability in reconstructing intricate details and textures. For instance, RPT-SR excels at preserving the structural integrity of human silhouettes where competing methods often introduce blurring artifacts (row 1). It adeptly restores sharp geometric patterns on building facades without the ringing or over-sharpening artifacts prevalent in other approaches (rows 2 and 3). Furthermore, in challenging low-contrast scenes, our model effectively mitigates noise amplification while reconstructing the objectâs original shape with higher fidelity (row 4). Collectively, these comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations robustly validate the efficacy of RPT-SR. Our model not only achieves state-of-the-art perceptual scores but also produces visually superior results across diverse and challenging conditions. Method M3FD x4 TNO x4 RASMD x4 (SWIR) FLOPS PARAMS LPIPS â MUSIQ â MANIQA â LPIPS â MUSIQ â MANIQA â LPIPS â MUSIQ â MANIQA â Baseline 0.105057 41.2597 0.26091 0.25048 36.4154 0.24596 0.154442 44.39395 0.223607 231.366G 25.454M Static 0.105324 41.6872 0.26034 0.25257 38.2838 0.24903 0.154457 44.72269 0.225821 229.100G 25.377M RPT (Ours) 0.103793 41.8049 0.26213 0.25014 38.5862 0.25125 0.153543 44.91027 0.226634 237.783G 25.830M Table 4: Ablation study of the proposed Regional Prior Transformer (RPT). We evaluate the impact of using only local tokens (Baseline), only static prior tokens (Static), and their fusion (RPT (Ours)). Best results are highlighted in bold red. 4.4 Ablation Study Figure 4: Attention maps at the last RPA layer from the M3FD test set. From left to right we show the local-only baseline, the static-prior variant, and our full model. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed components, we conduct an ablation study on the M3FD, TNO, and RASMD datasets. We compare our full Regional Prior Transformer (RPT) with two variants: (1) a baseline model that uses only local tokens for attention (no regional priors), and (2) a static model that uses only the learnable regional prior tokens (no dynamic local tokens). Table 4 shows that both token types are beneficial and their combination yields the best performance across all datasets. For example, on M3FD our full RPT achieves a lower LPIPS and higher MUSIQ and MANIQA scores than the baseline, indicating that learned regional priors provide complementary contextual information beyond what can be obtained from local content alone. The static-only model, which relies purely on positional priors, improves some metrics (e.g. MUSIQ on TNO) but consistently lags behind the full RPT, confirming that priors without frame-specific content are insufficient to reconstruct fine details of the current image. Figure 4 further illustrates these behaviors by visualizing the attention map of the three variants. The baseline produces a coarse horizontal band of attention around the horizon, while the static-only model exhibits diffuse checkerboard patterns. In contrast, RPT concentrates attention on semantically meaningful regions such as vehicles, and pedestrians, while suppressing sky and background responses. Together with the quantitative gains, these visualizations support our hypothesis that the best performance is obtained when frame-specific local information is modulated by persistent, scene-constant regional priors. Importantly, this improvement is achieved with only a marginal increase in FLOPs compared to the baseline, demonstrating the efficiency of the proposed design. 5 Conclusion We addressed the inefficiency of general-purpose super-resolution models in fixed-viewpoint infrared imaging by explicitly exploiting stable spatial priors. To this end, we proposed RPT-SR, a Regional Prior attention Transformer with a dual-token mechanism that fuses frame-specific local tokens with learnable regional prior tokens encoding the scene layout. Experiments on both Long-Wave and Short-Wave infrared datasets show that RPT-SR consistently achieves state-of-the-art perceptual performance, indicating that the model effectively learns scene-constant structural regularities beyond the specifics of the imaging physics. This gain comes at the cost of a modest increase in parameters due to the additional prior tokens, which we view as a deliberate trade-off between model size and perceptual quality. 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